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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Golden Circle Architecture Inception Canvas C4 Model

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Growth Golden Circle	Architecture Architecture Inception Canvas	Architecture C4 Model
Purposedifferent	ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification.	In positioning and communication, what an offering actually stands for often becomes blurred. The Golden Circle sharpens a product's inner rationale and connects purpose, approach, and offering into a clear statement.	The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails.	The C4 Model makes a system legible across several resolution levels, from context down to code. It suits situations where different audiences need to understand the same architecture from different altitudes.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Low	Low	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	30-60 min	1-2 h	1-4 h
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	1-8	3-8	1-5
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Why Statement, Messaging Notes, Positioning Draft	Inception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions	Context Diagram, Container Diagram, Component Diagram
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	MarketingPositioningCommunication	AlignmentArchitectureCanvas	ArchitectureCommunicationVisualization

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